The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

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Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

All government wars are unjust.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

His face was filled with broken commandments.

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.